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Jdsloan8898

@jdsloan8898.bsky.social
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Professor Emeritus of English. Writing Center, Victorian literature, and LGBTQ Scholar. Former Writing Center Director. Mysteries, Science Fiction & Fantasy Fan. Orchid Lover.

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Jdsloan8898 @jdsloan8898.bsky.social · 29/05/2026
I just wrote a @FaithfulAmerica letter: Tell Congress: Co-Sponsor the Transgender Bill of Rights. Write one here: actionnetwork.org/letters/tell...
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Tell Congress: Co-Sponsor the Transgender Bill of Rights
They are coming for our trans neighbors -- one bill at a time. Stand with us to declare: NOT IN OUR NAME. In 2025 alone, over 1,000 anti-trans bills were introduced in state legislatures across the ...
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Jdsloan8898 @jdsloan8898.bsky.social · 11/02/2026
I just signed a @theactionnetwork.bsky.social petition: Thank you, Walk for Peace, for your faithful pilgrimage. Sign here: actionnetwork.org/petitions/th...
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Thank you, Walk for Peace, for your faithful pilgrimage
On October 26, a group of Buddhist monks embarked on a long-distance pilgrimage from Fort Worth, TX, to Washington, DC, to spread a message of national healing, unity, and compassion. This beautiful j...
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WilsonvilleDemocrats.com @wilsonvilledems.bsky.social · 02/11/2025
Study hard today. Pop quiz after potluck!
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carolmac80💙🌈☮️🏳️‍⚧️🇺🇸🇺🇦🧿🌊 @carolmac80.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
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The Bulwark @thebulwark.com · 14/10/2025
"We must be steadfast in opposition to extortion under the guise of dealmaking, and we must create alliances rooted in a common devotion to freedom of inquiry, freedom of assembly, and freedom of religion."
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What’s a College President to Do in the Trump Era?
Not going on bended knee to Washington would be a good start.
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Mother Jones @motherjones.com · 14/10/2025
Inside the movement to resurrect conversion therapy
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First they tried to "cure" gayness. Now they're fixated on "healing" trans people.
Inside the movement to resurrect conversion therapy.
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Raider @iwillnotbesilenced.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
This Is Fascism
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Jdsloan8898 @jdsloan8898.bsky.social · 12/01/2025
@drgpat.bsky.social GPat, as I've prepared to leave Facebook, I discovered that you can download your own page information, and you can tailor the download to contain just the items you want. I don't know whether you are aware of this, but it might be useful in light of our conversation.
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Jdsloan8898 @jdsloan8898.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
Our literature courses on the regional campuses rarely make now. So if I were to stay, it would only be to teach sections of composition. That's how I spent my final years of graduate school while dissertating, teaching composition on three different campuses. No thanks. It's time to retire.
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Jdsloan8898 @jdsloan8898.bsky.social · 09/01/2025
So next week I begin the last semester in my 40-year teaching career. It's not ending as I had anticipated. I had hoped to leave a well-established Writing Center as the culmination of 25 years of work. Instead, the university closed it last Fall in a frenzy of short-sighted budgetary panic.
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